Specialist contractors - the future

Gray, C.

Specialist contractors - the future - 1990 - Chartered Builder 2(1) January/February 1990, 2-7(4) .

Examines the changes in employment practices of the main contractors which have caused them to shed virtually all directly employed workforce. The result has been a growth in the number of small and self employed builders taken on as subcontracters . Contractual arrangements , imported construction systems and ideas, and the future for subcontracting especially with regard to 1992 are also discussed.